Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-10-28

sHEppsRpsroWN, WEST VIRGINIA.
Friday, October IS. 1857.
WITH such extremely warm political
fights going on all around us In Mary
land and Virginia, it makes us West
virginians feel sort O. Lonesome. STILL
we suppose we will have quite enough
TO keep us going next year.
JOHN X. CowEN. the great Baltimore
"reformer," was n very blatant Repnb-
lican in Ohio, but when he went TO Bal.
timore he became a very enthusiastic
Democrat. Now he is an extremely
earnest independent. Mr.. Cowen evil
IDENTIFY changes his politics as circum-
stances require.
EDITOR DANA, of the New York Sun,
gets a salary of sl5. 900 year; Reid. Of
the Tribune, gets $4,000; Curtis gets
$4,000 for editing Harpers Weekly;
Cockerill, editor of the World, receives
$4,000 year for his services. The ed
itor of the REGISTER gets-but why so
on? 1t is painful.
AND now the Knights of Labor are in
peck Of trouble. Of course, everybody
could not be elected as the officials To
manage the affairs of the order, and the
defeated aspirants are now rebeiling
against the chosen officers, and evident
" intend to secede. United they may
stand, divided they will surely fall.
The country just now seems 10 be full
of party men who are very much in
favor OF their party but are opposed to
all the party candidates. Then there
are lots of men who are better-in then
own mimds-than anybody else in their
party. All of the above described per
sons will need close watching, though.
Mr.. LYMAN, Civil Service Commits.
sioner, agrees with his colleague, Mr..
Oberly, that it is very, very naughty for
Office holders TO have anything to say
ON the question of politics. Indeed, we
Judge from his language that tie don't
want those who hold official position to
even think very decidedly on the polit-
ical issues of the day.
The "Reformers" and their Republic
can allies were severely sat down on in
Baltimore on Wednesday. Although
they had moved Heaven and earth, and
used every means in their power, legit-
innate O.. illegitimate, to prevent il, the
regular Democratic ticket, headed by
Mr.. Latrobe for Mayor, was elected by
Il majority of about $500.
ROBERT GARRETT, eX-Prcsident OF the
Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad, started in
his private car for ii trip 10 the Saclhc
slope and Mexico on Sunday last, and
will probably be gone year. Many
newspapers openly assert that Mr.. Car
retts mind is not at all right, and that
the present trip is taken to get him away
from his old habits aud associations.
ONE of our contemporaries, with
whom we fully agree, suggests that
those railroads that refuse 10 do away
with the car stove should at least carry
on all trains well-diStributed supply
of chloroform. Then when the victims
are pinned down in a burning wreck,
their agony can be shortened and their
pathway into eternity made compare
lively easy.
The counsel for the condemned Chi
cago anarchists have taken their cases
to the Supreme Court of the United
States, and it may be that the rascals
will escape the gallows for an indefinite
period, if not completely. These cow
ardly assassins have already had too
much time given them, and this new
move will not only disgust the law -abid-
ing people, but will encourage other So
cialists and anarchists.
ANOTHER swindle has just been ex-
posed. This time it is the Tortilita silver
mines in Arizona that are proven to be
fraud Of the worst kind. This scheme
has been most extensively advertised
(by the way, they didn't fool the REGIS
TERI, both by the metropolitan and rural
press, aud great amount of stock work
ed off on the confidiug public. Those
who were "stuck" on the stock can sell
it-at cent a pound.
RECENTLY there have been quite a
number Of new newspapers started in
this State as candidates for public favor.
We like to see the press of the State en-
larged and strengthened, but really
some of the late efforts hardly reflect
credit or themselves or anybody or any
thing else. If there is not sufficient en-
enlargement for a fairly presentable
sheet to make its appearance we think
it would be much better not to start any.